Ubris

I’m pretty sure that the ultimate outcome of the Uber style technology platforms will be a servant class.

Essentially these apps allow the cheap provision of human services, unencumbered by layers of margin-adding middle men.

Affordable servants that, in this post industrial revolution era, aren’t actually needed as units of production.

Not even peripherally, in the information hemisphere that clusters around the industries focused on the aggregation and distribution of capital.

Ostensibly serving a machine rather than their clients, the service providers at least get to keep some semblance of pride.

Nevertheless such a system is open to abuse. It will be so.